I am trying to understand how the new Drupal module that I just uploaded to www.altglobe.com is working.
I really hope it will work smooth, so I will save energy by not having to move from one website to the other every time I am posting something and will be able to offer it to the members of the community. Read more...

Oh yeah I know the feeling. My first reaction would be to take my head into my hands and shake it vigourosly: "one entire year spent doing nothing"!

Apart from getting married, and, going to Brazil (twice) for the first time, and Oh yeah...becoming American...oh I went back to France too...when was it? March? April? Read more...

Have you ever thought about how amazing your skin is? It is the largest organ in the body, and weighs up to 11kg. It acts as a barrier to infections, preventing microorganisms entering our bodies. It is full of nerve endings that give us our sense of touch. It regulates our body temperature. Read more...

From April 2007 to February 2008, the city of Odate, Japan gathered about 17 tons of e-waste (according to a report from Harufumi Mori in Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper). Read more...

Your chakras are the "energy conduits" of your body, and should be maintained with daily meditation. From the base of your spine to the crown of your head, the seven chakras allow different kinds of energy to flow freely through your body. When these chakras become blocked, energy cannot pass throughout your body. To cleanse your chakras, meditation music is ideal.
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Denatured is a term that signifies the altering of a protein or product in a way that makes it dysfunctional, unnatural, and abnormal.  Commercial processing makes many foods unfit for consumption or for their intended biological purpose. Unfortunately, much of the food made available to us at our supermarkets has been denatured. 
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What is Fair Trade?

As consumers, we have a responsibility to consume products that are sustainable. We need to choose products that will keep our world healthy for generations to come.
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The holidays of light

 "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." “The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.”
Kohelet, Ecclesiastes, chapter1.
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I've been away from my blog. yup, between the obsessively following the election, teaching, doing laundry, and working on the biggest ever solar project I've made I got out of the habit of posting but I'm going to start posting again. Read more...

"There's this place that I go, where nobody knows, where the rivers flow
and I call it home, and there's no more lies, and the darkness is light
and nobody cries, there's only butterflies." - Natasha Bedingfield in Pocketful of Sunshine Read more...

Repeat after me; anyone can compost. Whether you live in an urban setting, in the burbs, on thirty acres of land, in a studio apartment, or a center hall colonial...you can make a do it yourself home compost. Read more...

If you are environmentally conscious you are probably asking a lot of different questions these days about flooring.  It is no longer about solid hardwood floors versus laminate, but bamboo versus sustainably harvested wood.  Flooring is of particular concern when you are thinking about having children.  Vinyl flooring can give off phthalates, which have been linked to male reproduc Read more...